Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9debfff433eeb406…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-08-21 00:05:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: dbbda09848777cea39a1407436275d62 SHA-1: 78a7efe01f37ab7612d8ef1c80af994431227c1e SHA-256: 9debfff433eeb4060d508cddff3cf4548214643ce2847c27a150a059c2c06a11
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier assigned a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond what the heuristics suggest.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120180a1ff44---8506888630.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d49ee2bf70---nudowaxalozikebalep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdnguvvfeah7ej2hgtcj13nsg3/43224972945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf8929ec25---sabegiwugepoxekilisima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bde7ee4517d71fba03856f33d8e2d389/babanefozil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5qktp479h8uglanp9n1tqiig5/12478172179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ne67rnqu686m6bf3mm6faupn50/jososazeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/15595741077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/lebog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ed7bc41ac422b2a756d1572427ca2d6/fovulowometim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edilgroupdigiovanni.it/userfiles/files/ruvidaraxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocamali.com/userfiles/files/kozivoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15140589805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9otlpvs121lcfpt93hqqaesf7/42403505399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/91274140666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/48651116381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160899548307d2---50709382773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86beaf03810923a803c0bec68d3b5f9b/ribivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/48069729686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37p25nglg7k907umh65hona7sd/bazojotejem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/vezino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b86032d570d---87226449265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/nuxeriroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830289bd1ff---29403053982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9104a20f5---22476449245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5ce41331d---26598301234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+shrink+water+beadsPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e47e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE47E 10608 bytes
SHA-256: ad710c17cd1526930a8d8163f66110252958af2a86910c93cab9668cff1964c5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAF 17556 bytes
SHA-256: 62bf9fa9dae3e1deadfb4fbc7c196b7cc902197cf8f54cee950dad89155d2af6
font_02_sfnt_off00012a6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1